Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address across the kernel

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 09:05 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> On 10/06/11 18:56, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:55:49 +0900
> > Paul Mundt<lethal@linux-sh.org>  wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:12:50AM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> >>> I no longer work at Bluewater Systems. Update my email address accordingly.
> >> Is this sort of churn really necessary?
> > Yes - stale email addresses cause all sorts of problems, particularly if
> > in the future the address is re-used in the company. It also causes
> > confusion over who owns and maintains stuff because it's never obvious
> > whether the resolution of an unknown address is
> > A.	'user has moved on, follow the user'
> > B.	'user has moved on, company probably has someone else assigned
> > 	 to it'
> Okay, so there seem to be a number of different opinions on this. I 
> would really like some solution for this so it can go into 3.0. The 
> options I see are:
> a) My original patch
> b) My original patch, but delete email address in .[ch] files rather 
> than change it
> c) Entry in .mailmap (will this work for 3.0?)

It will if Andrew Morton/Linus picks up my patch.

> d) Add MAINTAINERS entries for each of the files which have my email 
> address in them
> e) Some combination of the above

> Is there a preferred option?

My preferred combination is b and c.
If you're European, maybe a and c is best.